Quote of the Day, What Could Possibly Go Wrong With Immersive Real-Time AVR Rigs? edition.

I was actually going to go with, “And then the murders began” — but I had already used that joke yesterday. But, seriously, this is how the horror anthology episode starts:

Researchers at Microsoft have developed new VR technologies that they claim allow users to remain fully immersed in a virtual world even while traversing public places in the real world on foot. Microsoft describes the project, titledĀ DreamWalker, as “a method for allowing people to safely navigate a given route in real-world environments, such as a daily walk to work, while seeing themselves strolling a different VR world, such as a city of their choosing.”

“DreamWalker.” It’s like they want manitou.

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